Do you have to keep Your Spouse on your Health Insurance After Divorce? With all the hoopla about healthcare in the news, it seemed timely to discuss this issue and question about whether you still have to keep your spouse on your health insurance after divorce. I keep getting asked whether a spouse has to […]

There are some health benefits to divorce. Here are nine: 1) Lower blood pressure (with less fighting on a daily basis with someone living with you 24/7, your blood pressure is bound to recalibrate post divorce) 2) Reduced stress (what is more stressful than an unhappy marriage?) 3. “Safer” sex (in some instances divorce results in “safer” sex […]

Divorce isn’t just about the money and the kids. It seems it is also about the health. I recently learned of a study that shows that divorced women reported more physical illness than married women, or divorced men. She opines that it almost makes sense that women would be more distressed (or exhibit more […]

Filed in Divorce News: Divorce may be good for men’s health but bad for women’s UK Guardian reports that the American Journal of Epidemiology and the Karolinska Institute in Stockhom have found that divorce may be good for men’s health. It makes them fitter, while, conversely, it tends to make women fatter. The findings, published […]

LATEST DIVORCE NEWS: New York Post reports that a Men’s Health Magazine study finds that a whopping 77% of guys who cheat on their wives have no regrets if the cheating leads to divorce and 81% of these men surveyed also said they were happier with their new sex lives, post-matrimony. Nearly 50% blamed their […]

[GSMITHBOOK] Now that healthcare reform is the law of the land, I couldn’t help thinking of it from a divorce angle (I think of everything in the context of divorce these days) and I was reading an article in the Times of London about this divorcée Natoma Canfield who had written to President Obama asking […]

Will health care reform impact divorcing couples? I am just wondering whether anyone knows how the current proposed reform bill on health care will affect divorcing couples, if at all? Right now in New York, a spouse is under no obligation to continue to cover a former spouse after a divorce. The most they […]